Table 1. Effects of isolation, shape complexity and distance to edge on community weighted means for plant functional traits in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania.
Trait | Metric | Estimate | SE | t | p-value |
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Anemochory | Isolation | -0.064 | 0.078 | -0.812 | 0.424 |
Zoochory | -0.005 | 0.013 | -0.410 | 0.683 | |
Barochory | 0.073 | 0.133 | 0.551 | 0.586 | |
Height | -0.406 | 0.653 | -0.621 | 0.537 | |
Light-demanding Non-Pioneer | 0.111 | 0.083 | 1.344 | 0.185 | |
Pioneer | 0.179 | 0.121 | 1.482 | 0.145 | |
Shade-Tolerant | -0.071 | 0.025 | -2.903 | 0.005 | |
Seed length | -0.458 | 0.671 | -0.068 | 0.946 | |
Wood density | -0.015 | 0.006 | 0.006 | 0.012 | |
Anemochory | Shape complexity | 0.182 | 0.073 | 2.476 | 0.020 |
Zoochory | 0.007 | 0.013 | 0.528 | 0.600 | |
Barochory | 0.059 | 0.113 | 0.526 | 0.603 | |
Height | -0.009 | 0.655 | -0.014 | 0.989 | |
Light-demanding Non-Pioneer | 0.119 | 0.081 | 1.473 | 0.147 | |
Pioneer | 0.038 | 0.122 | 0.309 | 0.759 | |
Shade-Tolerant | 0.013 | 0.026 | 0.505 | 0.616 | |
Seed length | -0.478 | 0.668 | -0.716 | 0.477 | |
Wood density | 0.001 | 0.006 | 0.210 | 0.834 | |
Anemochory | Distance to edge | -0.006 | 0.104 | -0.059 | 0.953 |
Zoochory | -0.015 | 0.013 | -1.161 | 0.251 | |
Barochory | 0.104 | 0.106 | 0.980 | 0.334 | |
Height | 1.305 | 0.630 | 2.071 | 0.044 | |
Light-demanding Non-Pioneer | -0.171 | 0.083 | -2.070 | 0.044 | |
Shade-Tolerant | -0.388 | 0.122 | -3.176 | 0.003 | |
Pioneer | 0.097 | 0.022 | 4.326 | < 0.001 | |
Seed length | 1.127 | 0.652 | 1.727 | 0.09 | |
Wood density | 0.022 | 0.005 | 4.249 | < 0.001 |